Landside for plows



NOMOdeL I I J". T. TAP P ER. LANDSIDBFOR PLOWS.

No. 416,431. Patented Dec. 3, 1889.

WIT/ 58858; INVENTOR:

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES T. TAPPER, OF SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA.

LANDSIDE FOR PLOWS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,431, dated December 3, 1889.

Application filed July 3, 1889. Serial No. 316,426. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J AMES T. TAPPER, of Sandersville, in the county of WVashington and State of Georgia, have invented a new and useful Landside for Plows, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in landsides for plows, and has for its object to provide a landside capable of convenient and expeditious attachment to or detachment from an ordinary plow-stock; and a further object of the invention is to provide an attachable landside capable of being applied to a plow-stock, irrespective of the curve of said stock, and held in a firm and rigid position by a single bolt.

Another object of the invention is to so construct a landside that it will be durable, simple, and economical.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the landside detached. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a section on line 00 0c of Fig. l, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view illustrating the landside attached to a plow-stock carrying a simple form of plow.

The landside is formed principally of a piece of plate metal 10, preferably steel, having a concaved or curved front edge 11, a rearwardly-inclined top edge 12, and a straight lower edge 13, commencing at the front and extending a slight distance in the direction of the rear-for instance, to the point a, as illustrated in Fig. 2-from whence the lower edge is slightly upwardly and rearwardly inclined, as illustrated by dotted lines at 14 in Fig. 2.

To the lower edge 14 of the body-plate 10 a preferably cast-metal shoe 15 is secured by means of a screw, a bolt, or equivalent fastening device, which shoe is essentially L- shaped in cross-seection, the vertical member being made to extend upward in contact with the outer face of the body-plate and. the horizontal member beneath the edge 14 and beyond the same, as best shown in Figs. 1 and 3.

To the inner face of the body-plate 10, at the top and near the bottom, lugs 16 and 17 are respectively secured, whichlugs are projected at a right angle from the said inner face, as best shown in Fig. 3.

In attaching the landside to the plow the bolt 18 is loosened, which bolt secures the mold-board or plow proper 19 to the stock 20, and the lugs 16 and 17 of the landside are introducedbetween the inner face of the moldboard and the opposed surface of the stock, one lug being preferably located above the bolt 18 and the othernear the forward lower edge of the moldboard. When the lugs have been thus introduced, the bolt 18 is screwed to place, whereby the landside-is rigidly and firmly held in position for work, and

is capable of being expeditiously detached when not required by simply loosening the bolt 18.

It will be observed that by reason of the two lugs 16 and 17 being employed the landside may be placed upon any stock, no matter what the curve of the said stock may be, which could not be done if a flange were employed projected outward in similar manner to the lugs and extending from top to bottom of the body-plate. It will be further observed that the shoe 15 serves to protect the land-,

side from wear. 1

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A landside for plows, comprising a plate having a curved front edge and provided with lugs projecting at right angles from its inner face at the front, and an L-shaped shoe to which the plate is secured, substantially as described.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a landside-plow attachment for plows, consisting of a body-plate having a curved front edge, a rearwardly and downwardly inclined cated near the upper end and the other near upper edge, and a partially-straight and parthe lower end, substantially as and for the 10 tially upwardly and rearwalrdly inclined lower purpose specified. edge, a shoe essentially shaped in crossi r r1 1 5 section secured to the upwardly and rear- JAME IAPP wardly inclined section of the lower edge, \Vitnesses: and lugs projected at a right angle from the BEVERLY D. EVANS, J12, inner face of the plate at the front, one 10- VILLIAM DUGGAN. 

